Look, I’ve got a soft spot for Bill Nye. We went to the same school. He spoke there once when I was eleven or twelve and he was goofy and had a bowtie and owned it. The Science Guy years were magical, of course, and much less codedly hostile than Mr. Wizard. Since then, Bill Nye has basically been c
-Developer Jeremy Alessi in Gamasutra today, on the rise of games as revenue delivery functions. Essential reading.
Massively multiplayer games promise epic, persistent experiences, but in a very significant way they are less persistent than the copy of Tetris you have stashed in the basement: once developer and publisher support ends, you simply can’t play them anymore. So it goes for City of Heroes, the charmin
The NASA Cassini-Huygens robotic spaceship caught this thermal signature of Tethys, and it looks like, well, it could eat a cherry and mess up some ghosts. Scientists theorize that the Pac-Man thermal shape on the Saturnian moons occurs because of the way high-energy electrons bombard low latitudes
Dear god. Rock Paper Shotgun has the goods again today, this time about a Square-Enix Facebook promotional campaign for the new Hitman game, in which you can “target” friends for a “hit” and identify them by things like, I”m serious, having “small tits” or an undersized penis, or RED HAIR. It’s alre
After graduating university with a chemistry degree, Ajit Singh went to work as a graphic designer for a soccer company, designing uniforms for clubs across the United Kingdom. He dreamed of making a game, though, and he found his inspiration in The Cove, a 2009 documentary about dolphin hunting in
Today featured Kickstarter news both triumphant and tragic: the turn-based strategy game Alpha Colony missed its target funding ($50,000) by $28 and won’t be funded, while Sir, You Are Being Hunted more than doubled its target (40,000 pounds) and will be made. So the former will start over, or die,
From the British indie Landslide, which includes developers who worked on the Grand Theft Auto series and Wipeout, comes Criminalympics, a crime-sports lark very much in the Rockstar vein. The game – which is looking for 100,000 pounds on Kickstarter – takes places in something called the “Staten Is